By Gutierrez H.B. No. 1742
74R6083 CAG-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a petition by county employees to create a county civil
1-3 service system in certain counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 158.0065(a), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) This section applies only to <in> a county <with a
1-8 population of 290,000 or more> that would not be eligible to expand
1-9 or dissolve the system under Section 158.007.
1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16 passage, and it is so enacted.